A Swan-Song Betrayed
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
When the final curtain falls on a beloved performer, the mystery begins — A Swan-Song Betrayed by Josephine Bell is a tightly wound crime mystery that draws readers into a world where the glamour of performance conceals dangerous secrets. Bell, a veteran of the British detective fiction tradition, crafts a narrative in which an apparent farewell becomes a gateway to murder, deception, and a web of motives that her shrewd cast of characters must untangle. Bell writes with the cool precision of a trained physician — she was, in fact, a practising doctor — and this clinical eye lends her storytelling an authority and realism rarely found in the genre. Her work sits comfortably within the Golden Age tradition yet carries a distinctly post-war sensibility, grounding its suspense in the believable psychology of ordinary people pushed to extraordinary limits. A Swan-Song Betrayed stands as a compelling testament to Bell's mastery of plot and character, leaving the reader to wonder: in a world of final performances, who truly delivers the killing blow?
Author: Josephine Bell
Format: Hardback
Published: 1978, Hodder and Stoughton
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
When the final curtain falls on a beloved performer, the mystery begins — A Swan-Song Betrayed by Josephine Bell is a tightly wound crime mystery that draws readers into a world where the glamour of performance conceals dangerous secrets. Bell, a veteran of the British detective fiction tradition, crafts a narrative in which an apparent farewell becomes a gateway to murder, deception, and a web of motives that her shrewd cast of characters must untangle. Bell writes with the cool precision of a trained physician — she was, in fact, a practising doctor — and this clinical eye lends her storytelling an authority and realism rarely found in the genre. Her work sits comfortably within the Golden Age tradition yet carries a distinctly post-war sensibility, grounding its suspense in the believable psychology of ordinary people pushed to extraordinary limits. A Swan-Song Betrayed stands as a compelling testament to Bell's mastery of plot and character, leaving the reader to wonder: in a world of final performances, who truly delivers the killing blow?